September 03, 2018

Planting The Flag

The new movie celebrating Neil Armstrong as the first man on the moon slides right past the planting of an American flag on the moon. Forget it, Jack, it's Hollywood and waving the flag is for redneck rube Trump voters, amirite? Anyway, the moon landing was a human achievement, not an American one. Set aside that Kennedy had announjced a space race against the Soviets, who had an early lead due to their expertise with heavy rockets. Sputnik and Yuri Gagarin had challenged American know-how and Kennedy responded with a race to the moon. But humanity won!

The moon, it turns out, is a great place for men. One-sixth gravity must be a lot of fun, and when Armstrong and Aldrin went into their bouncy little dance, like two happy children, it was a moment not only of triumph but of gaiety. The moon, on the other hand, is a poor place for flags. Ours looked stiff and awkward, trying to float on the breeze that does not blow. (There must be a lesson here somewhere.) It is traditional, of course, for explorers to plant the flag, but it struck us, as we watched with awe and admiration and pride, that our two fellows were universal men, not national men, and should have been equipped accordingly. Like every great river and every great sea, the moon belongs to none and belongs to all. It still holds the key to madness, still controls the tides that lap on shores everywhere, still guards the lovers who kiss in every land under no banner but the sky. What a pity that in our moment of triumph we did not forswear the familiar Iwo Jima scene and plant instead a device acceptable to all: a limp white handkerchief, perhaps, symbol of the common cold, which, like the moon, affects us all, unites us all.

A blonde police officer pulls over a blonde
The police officer asks the blonde, "Can I see you license and registration, please?". The blonde then asked, "What is that?", the police officer says, "That thing with your face on it", the blonde then pulls a mirror out of her purse, and hands it to the police officer. The police officer then says, "Oh, my bad, if I knew you were a police officer I wouldn't have pulled you over."

Jim nj, I have very high arches, narrow heels and achilles, and protruding ankle joints, so shoes have never fit well, even when I could find men's narrow. I blister easily if the shoe moves, so I've always kept them tight for exercise walking.

The podiatrist made the orthotics 3/4 length so I could easily put them in other shoes, but it lets them move a bit sometimes. One of these days I'll figure out what to wedge in the shoe to keep them perfectly still.

The first week I used them I felt knock-kneed, but now it feels normal and the knee doesn't wobble. The shoe feels like it wants to roll under on a right slope, but it's better than it was without the orthotic.

This is why it's unlikely that we can do a deal with Canada. Trudeau sees union boss Trumka on his side and other Americans whom he assumes will side with him And he is willing to wait for his deal. Idjet.

I's not going to happen that way. 130,000 Canadian Auto Workers are going to be ou of work when Trudeau reconvenes the negotiations tow years from now.

Understood. Suburban streets are fine with me because they're usually flat. NYC streets drive me batty cause they are pitched to get rid of rainwater.

I can walk down one side of a NYC street and I'm fine. If I walk on the other side it's pitched wrong for me and my left knee suffers.

Even some suburban streets are pitched wrong. Even with orthotics I only get a partial solution. Sounds like what you're getting.

There are companies that have anti-pronation shoes, but they're ugly as sin. I tried one with a nubuck black finish. It's like flat black. Didn't work out. I felt like I was standing in my shadow, if you can understand how disconcerting it is to wear a flat black shoe.

In my New Balance sneakers I take a EEEE, so I can't well relate to narrow feet.

It's a process, or a journey, a learning experience, whatever, keep your eye open for better solutions. Spend time on the net looking for answers. I found a lot here.

For those of you inclined to pray, please pray for the family of a 22 year old man who drowned in a pool in the Hamptons this past weekend. The victim had been on the high school crew team with my older son for several years. The family lives here in Port Washington. The newspaper said the victim was found without any obvious injuries to the head. Was in a house with a lot of people in Springs, NY. Someone noticed he had been missing for about half an hour.

DiFi set up that Guttenberg creep to harass Kavanaugh at the hearings. It was a planned hit along with all the rest. (If I could find the tweet, I'd link it. DiFi's account w/ blue check inviting the creep).

Woodward pp133: Sean Spicer...tried several times to persuade Mattis to appear
on Sunday talk shows... The answer
was always no.
'Sean," Mattis finally said, "I've killed people for a living. If you
call me again, I'm going to fucking send you to Afghanistan. Are we
clear?"

"Since 2016, 381 cops have been killed in the line of duty. They believed in something and sacrificed everything as did the families they left behind. All of the men and women in law enforcement believe in something and are prepared to sacrifice everything" pic.twitter.com/PjxCygLNwo

Twitter rejected an invitation from the Oversight Committee and instead opted to appear before the E&C Committee tomorrow on 'shadow-banning.' Conveniently, none of the 'shadow-banned' members (@Jim_Jordan, @mattgaetz, or myself) sit on E&C... so they avoid our questions.

Weak.

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I doubt these senators (Mark Warner being one on the committee) are able to figure out when they are being lied to and the dems will all focus on Russian bots and such.

Press pool gets a chance to question Pres Trump today at start of his 150pm meeting with the Emir of Kuwait. @POTUS already tweeted his view that the Woodward book is "discredited" and contains "so many lies." He also meets later with GOP Congressional Leaders. But no photo op.

NYT: "Bob Woodward's subjects have always been able to trade access for spotlight and some sympathy in his books. Among the primary sources for this book are clearly ex-COS Reince Priebus; Gary Cohn, Trump's ex chief economic adviser; and Rob Porter, Trump's ex staff secretary."

Isn’t it a shame that someone can write an article or book, totally make up stories and form a picture of a person that is literally the exact opposite of the fact, and get away with it without retribution or cost. Don’t know why Washington politicians don’t change libel laws?

I wonder if the SJW group will start agitating for them to leave that location.

Bidness schools are getting the mother lode of brain dead marketing decisions to point out to non SJWs who are interested in competing in the real world eventually. Hopefully for them none of the subgeniuses emerged from their diploma mills.

A sad day in America when a decent family man and an Honorable Judge was subject to vile attacks by the Dem/left nuts. So disturbing, that it brought his parents to tears and his children were removed from the hearing. pic.twitter.com/7D5Kgz887Y

Thanks! We live in a food desert. I drive over 3 miles to the nearest Kroger. (There is one slightly closer but I don't like it's layout.) The only other places to buy food are a few fast food joints near the college south of me and a couple of drug stores which sell a few snacks and canned goods.

Indianapolis was hit pretty hard by the closing of the local Marsh grocery chain. The small mom and pop stores closed back in the 80's, for the most part. They couldn't compete price-wise with Kroger.

This morning,after watching circus at #SCOTUS hearing & reading stories about Woodward book,the burning of #Nike gear & debate over whether the “ok” sign is racist, the leaders of #China must be thinking to themselves “overtaking America is going to be easier than we thought!”

And why didn’t Grassley simply say “sergeant at arms, clear the room, remove the cameras”, and continue with the hearing?

I run hot and cold on Grassley, mostly the latter, but he may have thought that the more he lets those imbeciles disgrace themselves the more difficult it becomes for the likes of Collins, Murkowski and Flake to go Mavericky.

If you truly think that anything I have written here is a sign that I support the state over individual freedom then you force me to lower my estimate of your intelligence down to Eye Doctor and our resident troll. That is one of the stupidest things I have ever read on this blog and you are indeed full of shit for posting it. If anything Sessions adherence to blind justice and the Constitutional rule of law is an argument in favor of him advancing the cause of individual freedoms over that of the state.

I think it is not acceptable to assume that you cannot have your family on the opening day of your confirmation hearing because the democrats have pre-planned and paid protesters arranged, as well as dem senators making personal attacks.

That is ceding the field to the left.

I favor holding the dem senators responsible, not giving them any more tickets, and restoring order. Personal attacks in questioning should cause someone to be kicked off the committee.

I'm absolutely shocked that some of y'all are willing to roll over for the unhinged left - at the highest levels of our government, no less - but I'm sure as [redacted] not. And I really can't believe I'm reading such nonsense. Good thing I have a telecon in a few minutes or I'd go off...

Photos of paid protest in action (as in photos of payments). I wonder if they reported this to the IRS and DC tax authorities, deducted withholding, workman's comp, unemployment insurance, provided health care (60 got arrested, the cut off for ACA is 50)?

MM, I would agree generally that “ceding the field” is a bad idea. Had Kavanaugh insisted on no gallery out of fear of the mob, that would have qualified.

Keeping his family away isn’t. You’re turning their safety over to the mob, trusting that they’ll have the discipline to limit their harassment to verbal. If it went beyond and the kids end up injured.

They'll never be Dems? Not sure. I suppose someone getting nominated for the Supreme Court would expect everyone in the chamber to display some civility and decorum ... he underestimated the size of the Dems cheeks as they went and showed their asses.

I mean, should the Kavanaughs abstain from dining out for fear of putting their children in harm's way? Sarah Sanders had it coming, right? Let's allow Linda Sarsour to control the public square!! What could possibly go wrong? 😐

There was no way to know that themob was going to behave like that and no way to predict the personal nature of the questions the dem senators asked. Now today, I wouldn't bring relatives for the reason you suggest.

Grassley needs to shut this type of stuff down. Letting them get away with it is just fuel for more of this behavior.

Joining Generals Matthis and Kelly and John Dowd and Jay Sekulow. His incident about me entirely false. 20 to 30 witnesses saw it and can say he or his source are liars. Most important for libel purposes, he never called me. Didn’t want to know truth.

Good Morning! Dave (in MA) mentioned Pressley winning the primary against Capuano. FYI,be prepared to for her to receive the swooning Ocasio-Cortez treatment from the media. I was in a horrible mood yesterday,just reading about the hearing online for some reason really upset me. I question why the security in the hearing room was so lax. I've been told that seats for hearings are "first come,first served." So I believe that they were paid or invited (Guttenberg) by Senators.

It's part of the dog and pony show that confirmation hearings have become. Assuming there are any real world people on the fence about Kavanaugh that watched it, they'd think positively on the girls and negatively on the disrupters. Televising the hearings just turns them into a pseudo news spectacle that is as far from their reason for existing as you can get.

Fired head of elections agency (follow on to the GAB) won't leave. Must be an election to try to rig coming up.

Several emails released in a lawsuit against the GAB show Haas’ involvement, from the inception of John Doe II, which targeted dozens of right-of-center groups and individuals. Yet, the bureaucrat continued to insist that the GAB, John Doe partner to the highly partisan Milwaukee County District Attorney’s office, did nothing wrong.